In light of SimCity's disastrous launch week, publisher Electronic Arts has suspended the marketing campaign for the game, according to an internal email obtained by Polygon.

The email, which was sent to all of EA's marketing affiliate partners, informs them that EA is deactivating links through LinkShare and that "we ask you to please remove any copy promoting SimCity from your website for the time-being."

EA should just announce there is a offline mode patch coming in a few weeks and then i would buy the game for sure. Cause it does look pretty good but there is no reason for it to be online only and im not gonna support that its not like the game can have goldfarmers or bots.

I wish Maxis could sever itself from EA before they get shut down for lackluster sales.Sad to see Will Wright's franchises get destroyed by EA's moronic decisions.

Funny that they say they have suspended marketing when just last night on Comedy C I saw an advertisement every commercial for the game. The only way EA can save themselves now is add offline mode, or compensate consumers after they address the online issues.

Stop making such stupid decisions and people will stop hating you so much.

Look at it this way . . . people aren't expecting, and they sure as hell don't want, their singleplayer experiences to be indefinitely tied to an online experience. A queue to play your game by yourself? Well, EA . . . that's idiotic beyond belief.

At the end of the day, games are still products, and no matter how hard a developer worked on the game if things are implemented that ruin the game play experience, like Always on DRM, or no way to win a game if you don't spend extra money on micro-transactions. It either needs to be fixed or fail in the market. sometimes, that is the ONLY way a Company will learn and change.

EA needs to learn one day. The only way that companies learn is by people not buying their products. Complaining doesnt help, because you already bought the damn game.

If you bought Sim City, you should ask for a refund, and if they refuse, then yell bait and switch, and take their ass to court. This game is not what they advertised. I am sure they know that. I am sure you all see that.

Ea needs to stop making or financing games, They are the biggest rip off ever. I stopped buying any EA game and haven't bought a sports game from them forever. They started the on line pass now they can eat it.

you know what, iv been a fan of simcity back when it was on snes and the original simcity pc on our IBM 486 33mghz 2mg of ram and this game particularity iv been following its progress for some time now i swear i was waiting for time of work so i can go buy this game and then i found out all this shit about single player online and saving your cities on servers and some other cunts city affecting mine mate i just wanna play single player not everyone has a good internet connection. Or when the data cap is almost at its limit, you don't want to fucking use the internet to play single player fuck ya